Re: Word Non-Clones (Was: Re: (OT) Mailing Lists reflect on Developers)

From: Nic Sanctum (nic@THERSS.COM.HK)
Date: Tue Aug 01 2000 - 14:36:43 AEST


On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 12:19:31 -0500, "Robert B. Waltz" <waltzmn@SKYPOINT.COM>
wrote:

>I'd love to use BBEdit (or Nisus) to write my e-mail, then send it
>via Eudora. (And before you ask why, in that case, I don't use NESY,
>that's easy: I want no part of a program which encourages styled
>e-mail, and I want the filtering options of Eudora.)

BBEdit is a text editor. NW is a word processor and is designed for
preparing printed pages, BBEdit focuses on providing means of
producing and changing content. Thus BBedit does not offer fancy
formatting capabilities, headers and footers, graphic tools, a
thesaurus and other staples of most word processors.

It appears that you neither want or need these things in an email
client, so Mailsmith would be worth considering. This means that you
would have the same text engine as BBEdit (both products are from Bare
Bones) and you get access to all those nifty things like shift
left/right, zap gremlins, keyboard text selection, grep search etc.
all from within Mailsmith.

As a Eudora user for 8 years, I can say with confidence that the
filtering capabilities of Mailsmith are far more advanced than those
found in any other email client. Mailsmith offers grep filtering and
is well worth checking out.

--
N.

Nic Hamnett  |  nic@therss.com.hk



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